Milan, June 29, 2026
Fondazione Milan’s 2025/26 season concludes with results that go beyond the numbers, thanks to the activities and projects carried out to support so many young people. Every year, we start on the playing fields and go on to offer new opportunities for growth to the young people involved in our programs
The Impact of the 2025–26 Season
Once again this year, Fondazione Milan’s efforts began in Milan but expanded to an international scale, leading to the implementation of 14 projects in 6 countries around the world and reaching a total of 5,485 beneficiaries. Through our programs, we have supported their journey by promoting education, community inclusion, and well-being.
Through Sport for All, we have continued to make sports an open and accessible experience. The teams in the Paralympic Soccer Division—Vharese and Briantea84—along with this season’s new project, Sitting Soccer, have welcomed young people with disabilities, offering them the opportunity to play soccer in an inclusive and accessible environment.
Among the new challenges of the 2025–26 season is the issue of mental well-being, which is playing an increasingly central role in young people’s development. We have addressed this by supporting five organizations in the Milan area, and, together with Casa di Redenzione Sociale, we have highlighted how sports can offer support, promote well-being, and guide young people on their journey of growth.
This is also evident in all the other projects of the Sport for Change program abroad, where sports activities help people overcome difficult times and provide safe spaces where they can feel free to express themselves. Giving young people the chance to participate in sports creates an opportunity to put the individual at the center and transform challenges into new opportunities.
Once again this year, we wanted to stay close to our beneficiaries by meeting them on the ground in Milan, throughout Italy, and abroad. In May, we were in Palermo to celebrate the second season of the“Play for the Future”project, carried out in collaboration with Fondazione CDP, FIGC, and the Ministry of Justice. We met with some of the young people involved in the correctional system who are finding new opportunities for growth through sports as part of the project.
Among this season’s new developments was the launch of a new project under the Sport for Change program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, marked by a visit from a delegation from Fondazione Milan and Fondazione Mama Sofia to Kinshasa. There, the project aims to provide educational and training opportunities in a setting that combines education with activities promoting physical and mental well-being and social inclusion for 100 young people at a school in Biabu, a village in the province of Central Congo.
Crossing the ocean, we stopped in New York to meet the young people involved in the Sport for Change program through the Success Academy project. The trip was also an opportunity to showcase the values of AC Milan and Fondazione Milan at the United Nations Headquarters, alongside Alexandre Pato, a Rossoneri legend and ambassador. In front of thousands of young participants in the Change the World Model program, we spoke about the power of soccer as a driver of growth, inclusion, and change.
Even when we were unable to be there in person, we continued to support our projects around the world from Milan, turning our solidarity into tangible support for their daily sports activities through the donation of sports equipment to the girls and boys participating in the Sport for Change projects in Pakistan’s Yasin Valley, in Kenya, in Nairobi, and in Brazil, in Salvador de Bahia.
None of this would have been possible without the support of those who stand by us every day. Every gesture of solidarity—from those who ran alongside us in the Milan Marathon to 5×1000 donors, from volunteers to companies and institutions, and even to the players and the entire Club—enables us to offer new opportunities for growth to those living in vulnerable situations. For us , this support is a sign of trust and reinforces the responsibility we feel toward our beneficiaries around the world.
